Hey, We have a robust Ansible suite for deploying many of our servers and we're running into trouble using Drone <https://github.com/drone/drone>because of its use of Docker. Ansible has support for Docker insofar that it can create and manage Docker images. However, this becomes a problem because those are created from Dockerfiles that duplicate what we're already doing with Ansible.
For example, let's say we have an application server that we deploy the application to and a build server that runs our CI. With something like Jenkins we can just use the same Ansible role on both to get them ready for the application. With Drone and Docker we need a base image of the server that Drone can start fresh each time the tests run. That means we have both an Ansible role and a Dockerfile that repeat how to create an application server. We could potentially get the Ansible script to create that Dockerfile through docker_image but we'd also have to update the Docker registry and a bunch of overhead to keep both in sync. The obvious solution is just deploying entirely through Docker. While possible, it will take a lot of time to port everything over to a new architecture. There's also a very sneaky reference to docker-dna <https://github.com/wrale/docker-dna> around 18:15 of the video at http://www.ansible.com/docker <http://youtu.be/oZ45v8AeE7k?t=18m15s>. Is that the best way to go about this? I'm surprised there's not more discussion about this, it seems pretty clutch for Ansible users who want to use Docker. Thanks, - Justin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/19e09322-111c-4bbf-bcad-7c070dff9a02%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
